How Does Facebook’s Data Center in Forest City, N.C., Impact the Local Economy?

by David Cohen

Facebook teamed up with Boston Consulting Group to release a study in June on how its data center in Luleå, Sweden, is impacting the local economy, and the social network undertook a similar venture with RTI International to measure the economic effects of its data center in Forest City, N.C. According to the study by RTI and Facebook, which examined the facility’s impact fr ...Read the full article